I was noticing my page rank disappear fast, one of my mates pointed to Google’s results on searching for Deceptive Media to be a bit strange (as the image above), producing results like “Windows Xp Home Edition Full — Discount – 182% price off”.

I looked at the source code and concluded it must be a glitch at Google as I couldn’t see any problems and hoped they would sort it soon. After a few weeks I realised that it must be problem with Deceptive Media. I found this post after a few hours searching which seemed to be exactly my problem. Following the directions on Jon Buckley’s site sorted the problem.

Thanks Jon.

Update: (21 Sept 2011) I’m still suffering from this hack 2 months on from this post. It’s proving really difficult to eradicate.

Second exhibition with David Baker of Milouvision. This one at Eastleigh Museum, 25 High Street, Eastleigh SO50 5LF. The exhibition runs from  16 April 2011 to 21 May 2011.

We learnt a lot from the last one and think we have improved on our display skills this time. We’ve also decided to include a broader selection of material this time rather than just coastal photography as before.

Exhibition site: resonance-exhibition.co.uk.

A collaborative project with David Baker of Milouvision.

23 Nov 2010 – 7 Jan 2011
Hanger Farm Arts Centre
Aikman Lane, Totton, Hampshire SO40 8FT

Exhibition site: resonance-exhibition.co.uk.

Some of you may have noticed on the about page that I now have a twitter account, follow me if you like. I’m not sure how I feel about twitter at the moment but at least it’s another way to announce a new photoblog post.

Since switching to WordPress I’ve been frantically working on the site. Finally I think I have all the bugs ironed out and am happy with the look and functionality.

It’s taken many hours, I shall now concentrate on my photography and the site content.

Deceptive Media now runs on WordPress. I work with WordPress everyday and have recently felt that Deceptive Media should be moved to WordPress.

When I first started photoblogging there really wasn’t much out there, and what was required fast amounts of hacking to get working as a photoblog. So my brother offered to build one which he called DeView. We developed it together other the years and it has served very well. In some ways I’m sad to see it go, but I wanted to integrate my photoblog and the news and inspiration part of my blog more, which was already running on wordpress. Having two different blogging software’s to power my site was making design changes difficult as I liked to keep a uniform look. I also wanted friendly URL’s, and threaded commenting.

Recently I was interviewed at PetaPixel and this reminded me that Deceptive Media was originally going to show case all my creativity (photography, videos and music) so I’ve made a place for my music & videos (not much there yet), though Deceptive Media will remain primarily a photoblog.

Big thanks to my brother for making this possible by mapping the the databases, He’s written a little about it here. And also a big thanks to whoismanu for his excellent photoQ plugin, turning WordPress into a very capable photoblog.

I’ve kept the main RSS feed as just the photoblog for now, if you’d prefer to subscribe to everything then you can here.

Michael Zhang of PetaPixel has interviewed me about my photoblog.

I have plans to add more pages to this site so I needed to re-design the header to generate some more space.

C-Dek is my ambient podcast serving up minimal ambient electronic soundscapes.

The basic idea is to upload soundcapes as they are completed and then as I reach roughly an hours worth of material I’ll upload a version of these tracks as one continuous mix, which will become part of the Resonance Volumes.

Updates will be at a sedate pace.

Update: I’ve moved C-Dek on to a sub-section of this blog.

A few years ago some of you may remember I used to have a Moblog called GX30.net which was for photos I took with my Sharp GX30 mobile phone. The camera on the phone was crap technically but some how produced photos that I loved. I found the cameras in all subsequent phones I owned to be not nearly as good and lost interest in my moblog which eventually died.

I recently got a HTC Magic and I think that it’s capable of some crap photos in a similar way to the GX30 so hence I’ve added a Moblog section to Deceptive Media for these photos. I’ll also be posting all the better GX30 photos I have plus some from other camera phones I’ve owned.

[Re]Encoded has Deceptive Media listed as one of  it’s list of
21 Awesome Photo Blog Designs for Inspiration

Milou caught me in action at West Wittering beach last weekend, it was an enormously windy day and the sand being blown around was (still is) wrecking havoc with our cameras.

Milou currently has an exhibition at Moors Valley Country Park:

MakeUseOf.com has Deceptive Media listed as one of  The 10 Most Stunning Photo Blogs, thanks Tina.

The image above (click to see in my photoblog) has been stolen to sell some H L Art Glass at Indiamart.com. Normally I don’t get too upset when I stumble across my photos that have been stolen but when it’s used to sell something it gets my back up. I’ve written them a shirty email asking for them to remove it but had no response, as this was over a week ago I thought I’d have a rant here as well. Anyone know how to deal with this?

Deceptive Media is listed on Your Photo Tips as part of 100 +1 Best Photography Blogs, Websites, Podcasts, and Magazines of 2008, thanks Damien.

Apologies to those of you who had commented on this blog (not the photoblog) as I accidentally deleted all comments whilst trying to delete a mass of spam. This was partly my fault for having not installed Akismet, which I’ve done now so hopefully this wont happen again.
There is a little counter bottom right to indicate the number of spam comments blocked if your interested.

Slight changes to footer and header, but mainly the addition of the new Archives page with search and multiple options to view images. Projects has moved to the main menu away from the footer, both probably still need some refinement.

My Photoblog features in Neutralday’s list of 26 Inspiring Photoblogs: Consistently Excellent along with 25 other great photoblogs.

Been fiddling again. I tihnk I’m getting there now, I plan to spend some more time refining this blog section of the site but I’m pretty happy with the photoblog section now.

The first of probably many revisions to the site design since adding the new extra blog section for news and inspiration.

I ended up disliking the header due to the amount of space it took up, especially on a smaller res screen, hence the skinny header.

I’ve also been beavering away on the back end and finally reduced the url count for each post to one. Previously there were 4 url’s per skin for each post in the photoblog, with seven skins and 977 posts (at the time of writing) there were effectively 6839 pages on the site. Hopefully Google and other search engines will have an easier time indexing Deceptive Media now.

I’ve had to rid the site of skins, a feature I really liked but that meant due to the way the site worked I effectively had 7 pages of duplicate content throughout the site, something Google’s not keen on, skins are know history.

Not really news as I announced this on Deceptive Media some time ago but I thought I’d give it another mention here.

Some of my work can be found at the Eckhart Gallery, a fine art gallery based in The Hague.